Rigid Control Of Beef Cattle Trade In Canada
Ottawa reports wartime prices and trade board imposing strict control of Canada beef cattle. War time Food Corporation becomes sole exporter with guaranteed ceilings to producers to stabilize markets. Change aims to remove incentives to hold cattle and resume normal marketings, addressing uneven earlier allocations and shortages.
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Canada
Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Food Corporation
Foot Corporation
United States
Britain Uses $100000 to Forge Life Saving Plasma Plant
British scientists build the largest plasma freezing and drying plant funded by a Wellcome Trust gift. The system freezes and preserves dried plasma from 10000 donors weekly, enabling indefinite storage for use in wars and disasters, with ongoing global distribution to Egypt, Malta, Russia, and China.
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London
Britain
Medical Research Council
Chermist
Sir Henry Wellcome
Egypt
Russia
Malta
Japan
Airport Addition at Winnipeg Aims $1 Million Expansion
Winnipeg plans a $1,000,000 expansion to No. 4 Air Observer school with an extended Stevenson airport and two new runways. The site was chosen by the Dominion airdrome committee in Ottawa, while St James municipality proposed an alternate location to shield nearby homes.
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Winnipeg
No. 4 Air Observer School
Stevenson
Dominion Airdrome Committee
Ottawa
St. James
Invasion Talk Prompts Polish Leader Remarks on War
Gen Sikorski, premier of Poland, says Dieppe raid proved an invasion of Europe is feasible and credits American and Allied air supremacy with the expected German outcome. He notes U.S. entry into the war as decisive for the final result, speaking on the third anniversary of Poland's Nazi invasion.
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London
Dieppe
Sikorski
Poland
Britain
United States
Allied Western Front Success Worries Nazis
London reports say Marshal Goering plans a shake up of the German air force after Allied daylight fighter and bomber sweeps over occupied France. Dieppe air cover held nine hours, with fuel and tank landings noted as key concerns for Hitler.
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London
Hermann Goering
Western Front
France
Continent
Dieppe
Hitler
Goering
Wartime Tea Price Schedule for Small Packages Announced
Thomas K Wade wartime prices and trade board administrator issued a new schedule of appropriate prices for small tea packages under coupon rationing. Prices vary by maximum retail price per pound with four and two ounce options set at 23 24 26 cents and 12 13 14 cents respectively, tea bags pricing to be determined on application.
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Ottawa
Thomas K. Wade
Prices and Trade Board
Canada Wheat Flour Exports Reach Russia
Ottawa reports Canadian wheat has moved to Russia in considerable amounts as flour in recent months. Negotiations for further shipments are under way. Last year shipments via the United Kingdom reached northern Russian ports and aided Russian armies fighting Germany.
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Ottawa
Russia
MacKinnon
United Kingdom
Demand for Lumber in Canada Braces for Shortage
Ottawa reports a looming lumber shortage as forests face a deficit of more than 53 000 lumbermen. By December the need is seen rising to 110 000 with loggin g at peak. British Columbia requests 3 500 loggers now to meet quotas while 50 000 are needed in eastern provinces.
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Ottawa
Elliott M. Little
National Selective Service
British Columbia
Arrive in Britain With the RCAF Flyers
A mixed group of RC A F radio technicians arrives in England joining the air force. The batch includes LAC L Ziff a Port Erie lawyer LAC W R Penney a Montreal telephones inspector LAC Wilcox an Ottawa bank clerk LAC R J Thompson a Rosetown school teacher LAC E I Woolman a Sudbury miner and LAC J D Winfield a Toronto school teacher who lands on his 25th birthday.
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Lac. L. Ziff
Port Erie
Bureau of Statistics
Ottawa
Lac
W. R. Penney
Montreal
Lac. Wilccox
R. J. Thompson
Rosetown
Sask
Lac. E. I. Woolman
Sudbury
Lac. J. D. Winfield
Toronto
Britain
Ottawa calls to reuse idle machinery to ease steel shortage
Munitions Minister Howe urged Canadians to borrow rent or purchase needed equipment from neighbors and to dispose of idle machinery to keep essential industries supplied as Canada faces a serious steel and manpower shortage.
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Ottawa
Howe
Dominion
Canada Mon
Expression Of Confidence In Fight For Victory
Britain enters the fourth year of war with calm confidence and optimism for a new offensive. Attlee and cabinet unite in resolve that difficulties lie ahead but victory is certain, as editorials praise balance of forces and anticipates the end of the long fight for survival.
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London
Britain
Dominion
Attlee
Churchill
Westminster Abbey
The
Times
United Nations
Daily Telegraph
Union For United Nations
the Mirror
Allied Move Against Dakar Feels Possible Amid War Talks
The piece argues an Allied invasion of Dakar may be planned, noting Berlin's interest and Laval's possible complicity. It highlights Dakar's strategic value for South Atlantic communications to Africa, the Near East, and India, and frames occupation as a step toward ousting Axis forces from Africa.
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Berlin
French Dakar
Hitler
Dakar
West Africa
Vichy
Laval
Africa
Brazil
South America
South Atlantic
Near East
India
All Africa
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Stern
Germany
Rossia
Charles Vining
New Wartime Information Board
RCAF
England
RCA
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Europe
Duke of Kent
Marina
Duke
Duchess of Kent
King George
Queen Mary
Prince
Nicholas
Norway
Denmark
Canadian Journalists Board Bomber
Great Britain
Front
C. V. Charters
Brampton
Ont
Walter Legge
Granby
Que
W. G. Clark
Saskatoon
E. R. Irwin
W. A. Porter
Charles de Gaulle
Amilakvari
Bir Hacheim
Libya
Legion Etrangere
Seranville
News Chronicle
the Herald
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